A headache for Emmanuel Macron. The president is still looking, on Thursday, September 5, for a profile for Matignon that some think is impossible to find. The lead of Michel Barnier to take the post of Prime Minister succeeded, Wednesday at the end of the day, that of the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand. Questioned by France Télévisions on this hypothesis, the former European commissioner and figure of the Republicans refused to comment.
Looking for a profile “that will have the best chance of staying”. LThe entourage of the President of the Republic affirmed Wednesday to franceinfo that the main criterion of choice of Emmanuel Macron remained the capacity of the future Prime Minister to resist a motion of censure. The head of state is in search of the profile “qwho will have the best chance of staying” in office and to build coalitions, according to the same source.
A “methodical error” for François Hollande. “On the method, Emmanuel Macron thinks that he will resolve the issue of governability himself,” said the former President on Wednesday evening on the show “Quotidien”. “It is a mistake, it is up to the National Assembly to decide.” François Hollande also points out a ““fundamental problem”: “Emmanuel Macron does not want to change his policy”. “What is blocking the issue is the question of how far the Prime Minister could go in questioning” reforms carried out since 2017, judges the former head of state, who has become a deputy again.
Oppositions to the Xavier Bertrand option. The National Rally has made it known in recent days that it is head-on opposed to the nomination of the president of the Hauts-de-France region, which it considers too hostile to its ideas and its voters. On the left, the threat of censure was also brandished against a Bertrand team.